FOI request (FOIR-115759009)

Council Tax arrears and Bailiff use

I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
to request the following information;

For the period 2013/14 -2018/19 by year;

1) How many households were in Council Tax arrears each
year?

2) How many
households in Council Tax arrears became subject to a
liability order?

3) How many cases of council tax arrears were referred to
bailiffs?

3b) What was the value of the council tax arrears referred to
bailiffs?

3c) What was the value of the arrears recovered?

3d) What were the costs of the bailiff action (including
costs faced by households and costs faced by the
council)?

4) How many cases of council tax arrears had repayment plans
arranged?

5) How many cases of council tax arrears had third party
deductions applied?

6) How many cases of council tax arrears had attachment of
earnings orders applied?

Please provide each set of information above, for each
financial year as requested, separately in your
response. We
would prefer to receive your response in electronic format,
either included in the body of an email or as an attachment
in Excel, Word or PDF format.

Response

1) Reminders - Final Notices and Summonses issued within a
financial year, some of which may have since with
withdrawn: